Art History Resources   Tags: art, design  

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Art

• AP Photo Archive Photos & audio from Associated Press.
• Art Full – Text Art-related articles.
• Art Retrospective Art-related articles, 1929-1984.

• Art Full Text Complete full-text articles on art and design. Has peer-reviewed articles that are appropriate for use in a research paper!!

• ARTstor Digital images and data supporting art and design as well as music, dance and theater history.

• Oxford Art Online Grove Dictionary of Art and additional Oxford art resources.  Excellent for looking up artists (and more trustworthy than Wikipedia!) and for looking up art movements.
  

• ProQuest Magazine and newspaper articles, includes full-text articles for printing or download. Also has peer-reviewed articles that are appropriate for use in a research paper!!
  

1.  MLA examples at The Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

• "The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material"

• Includes excerpts from the MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide.

2.  MLA handbook for writers of research papers : Handbook for writers of research papers.  7th ed. 2009

Location: Two copies, Book Stack / Reference
Call Number: LB 2369 G53 2009 / Ref LB 2369 G53 2009

3.  MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing.  3rd ed.  2008.

Location: Two copies, Book Stack / Reference
Call Number: PN 147 G444 2008 / Ref PN 147 G444 2008

4.  Having trouble citing something?  See a librarian at the reference desk.